Battle Tested Online Business Ideas for Affiliate Marketing

Battle Tested Online Business Ideas for Affiliate Marketing

Don’t worry this will be a short post I have been doing a lot of long ones lately (laughing). The long and short articles are part of my content mix and development strategy. I did a controversial post some time ago called 3 Reasons NOT to Become an Affiliate Marketer. That post kind of ticked off a LOT of people LOL. On twitter they were like “Darren your wrong about affiliate marketing blah blah blah.” But once I clarified my position people got where I was coming from.

Online Business Ideas for Affiliate Marketing the RIGHT WAY

1. Build from the niche up

Start with your research as I point out in 7 Essential Steps to Launch an Online Business. Before do affiliate this or that you need to build your niche site and email list FIRST. That mystical “make money without a website” crap will set you up to FAIL You can’t become independently wealthy without owning your own website. So sorry to burst your bubble.

2. Relationships anyone?

There are people out there so busy calling themselves a generalized word like “Affiliate Marketer” but where is the relationship? Do you know that the BEST salespeople don’t really call themselves sales people? Kind of like the rich doesn’t call themselves rich. Keep in mind you are reading this from someone who has made thousands in affiliate marketing. And yet I REFUSE to call myself an affiliate marketer. I am good ole problem solving over delivering Darren. Darren will make 12 sales for every 1 sale of an  “affiliate marketer”.  People buy from people not affiliate marketers.

3. Brand yourself not the affiliate program

Hey people buy from people not affiliate marketers. You should understand that by now by reading number 2.  The BEST ways to brand yourself are through

• Your blog
• Your FREE ebooks and reports
• Artwork
• Logo
• Video and Audio
• Anchor texts of your keywords
• Your followup program (see #3)

3. ENDORSE WHAT YOU ENFORCE

I had to put that in big words. There is a guy who always tweets things to buy that he himself NEVER uses. Well what the hell?! Why would I buy something you don’t even know if it is good or not?

Quality over quantity

The MAJORITY of affiliate marketers I have come across do NOT followup after the sale. I know this can get tricky because you need to actually get your peoples information to do that. But of course that is where #2 with relationships come in. I send for instance private emails about Niche Profit Classroom all the time. I m more than happy to help people. That’s because I am actually doing this program for a year and half plus and LOVE IT!

Conclusion

Don’t call or market yourself as a affiliate marketer. Because you will doom yourself to generalizations and boredom. All the time wondering why you don’t sell.

Lead the world from YOUR NAME and BRAND! You can do this while leveraging your premium products and sales through affiliate programs.

Be a person, be a problem solver, be a brand (remember a brand is simply a promise to deliver something), and enforce your endorsements!

Do all of the above and you will not only STAND OUT but you will prosper!